Dozens of civil servants in the Cabinet Office are spending nearly four working hours a week on woke ‘staff networks’, according to an FOI by the Taxpayers’ Alliance seen by Guido. The Cabinet Office runs 24 ‘staff networks’, with each Chair able to spend 10% of their working hours running them. The total cost to run the ‘diversity’ networks over the last four years comes to £36,000…
Some of the more eyebrow-raising networks include:
- ‘Gender Equality’
- ‘LGBT’
- ‘Race’
- ‘Vegan’
- ‘Menopause’
- ‘Flexible Working’
- ‘Neurodiverse’
Just yesterday Starmer told his shiny new Cabinet to “go further and faster in reducing the size of the Civil Service”, and claimed the state was “too flabby“. Was his ‘Chief Secretary’ Darren Jones listening? He’s supposed to run the Cabinet Office now, after all…